10 JULY 1964, page 16

Doctor In The House

SIR, —Mr. J. B. Ashe should not be unduly perturbed about the variety of people who are entitled to the appellation 'Doctor.' The medical man who objects should be content to......

A No-party System

S1R, — The more one reads your journal, among others, the more one sees that we are being asked to choose between conservative Socialists and socialist Conservatives. How mush......

Lewis Namier

am writing a Life of my husband Lewis Namier, and would be grateful for the assistance of readers who have memories or documents likely to be of help to me, particularly for the......

Sir, — Mr. Ashe Asks Whether It Is Too Late To Legis-

late that the honourable title of doctor be confined to the medical profession. But why should a word de- rived from the Latin docere be so confined? If am- biguity is to be......

10,000 Refugees

am collecting material for a study of the lives of the 10,000 refugees, most (but not all) of them Jewish, who came to England as children twenty-five years ago. Would those......

A Task For Youth Sir, — With Reference To The Letter From

Mr. Anthony Steen, I would like, as an individual member of the LCC Welfare Committee, to give my wholehearted support to his effort to rouse the nation's conscience to the......

Against Commercials

Sia, — In the first paragraph of their article, Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall rightly say that `to argue that local, commercial radio would be "free" is simply to assert more......

Sir, — Do We Hold The Medical Man In The Highest Regard?

If so, who are 'we,' to whom Quoodle, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Ashe refer with such pride? Cert- ainly not myself nor very many of my acquaintances. For more universal opinions we......

Sir,—mrs. Atherley Has A Case In Point When She Suggests

that transferring power from the most ad- vanced to the least advanced group would be a back- ward step, but in South Africa, the least advanced group is the majority, and......

Reform Of Parliament

SIR, — Quoodle is quite right to complain in the Spectator that This Week should have a programme based on Mr. Enoch Powell's article in the Spectator . and yet not mention the......

Into The Past

SIR, — Mr. Jeremy Brooks's reviews in your June 5 issue, 'Into the Past,' have such an excellent opening paragraph that I am sorry to criticise a later one. I did not know that......

The Cost Of Smoking

SIR,—The Prime Minister, in a letter to our society, states: 'The fact that smoking, especially the smoking of cigarettes, is a cause of many serious illnesses has been......

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